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灭亡

miè wáng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 滅亡

灭亡 (miè wáng) means "to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 灭亡 means

1. to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out
2. to destroy; to exterminate

The characters in 灭亡

• 灭mièto extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out
• 亡wángto die; to lose; to be gone

Example sentences

• 核战争将会为人类带来灭亡。
  Hézhàn zhēng jiānghuì wéirén lèi dàilái mièwáng.
  A nuclear war will bring about the destruction of mankind.
• 从古到今，没有过不灭亡的国家。
  Cóng gǔ dào jīn, méiyǒu guo bù mièwáng de guójiā.
  There has never been a nation that was not eventually destroyed.
• 罗马帝国灭亡的其中一个主要原因是他们没有0 —— 这样他们就没法给自己的C程序指明成功退出的路。
  Luómǎ Dìguó mièwáng de qízhōng yī gè zhǔyào yuányīn shì tāmen méiyǒu 0 —— zhèyàng tāmen jiù méifǎ gěi zìjǐ de C chéngxù zhǐmíng chénggōng tuìchū de lù.
  An important reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was that they had no zero. So they had no way of demonstrating a successful exit of their C programs.
• 未来的人类：“古代文明人所创造的这台Unix机器、它的历法只到2038年1月19日这一天就为止了，因此我确信那一天必将是地球灭亡之日。”
  Wèilái de rénlèi:"gǔdài wénmíng rén suǒ chuàngzào de zhè tái Unix jīqì, tā de lìfǎ zhǐ dào 2038 nián 1 yuè 19 rì zhè yī tiān jiù wéizhǐ le, yīncǐ wǒ quèxìn nà yī tiān bìjiāng shì dìqiú mièwáng zhī rì."
  Person of the future: "The calendar of this Unix machine that the ancients built only goes up to January 19, 2038. As such, I am convinced that this marks the day of the Earth's destruction."

Words containing 灭亡

• 自取灭亡zì qǔ miè wángto court disaster (idiom); to dig one's own grave

Where 灭亡 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · miǎn–mín (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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